This backgrounder is intended to provide context for Cardus’s focus on loneliness and social isolation. Cardus research is intended not only to raise awareness and provide insight into a particular area of public life, but also to stimulate action and behavioural changes that have a positive impact on social flourishing.
Health
Research Brief
Loneliness and Social Isolation
June 29, 2020
Work & Economics
Research Report
Structural Challenges to Personal Support Worker Funding
The shortage of personal support workers, the most numerous group of frontline workers in LTC homes and the group responsible for the majority of hands-on care, is acute. But why is this happening?
June 29, 2020
Family
The Canadian Marriage Map
June 23, 2020
Work & Economics
Research Report
Pressing Its Luck
How Ontario Lottery and Gaming Can Work for, Not Against, Low Income Households.
June 9, 2020
Education
Research Report
Flexible Education in an Age of Disruption
Embracing Innovation and Diversity in Ontario K–12 Education
May 25, 2020
Education
Research Report
Pursuing Excellence in Christian Education: Experiential Learning
A Case Study of Pacific Academy
April 8, 2020
Education
Research Report
Pursuing Excellence in Christian Education: Building Community
A Case Study of Woodland Christian High School
April 8, 2020
Education
Research Report
Pursuing Excellence in Christian Education: Parent Involvement
A Case Study of Our Lady of Lourdes Elementary School
April 8, 2020
Faith Communities
Research Report
An Institutional History of Religious Freedom in Canada
This paper aims to provide a historical context for why freedom of religion and conscience is foundational to Canadian democracy, diversity, pluralism, and to our common life as human beings living in this place, this Canada.
April 3, 2020